Zhu Yousong frowned and asked, "According to what you say, the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty is not very poor?" But where did those poor officials come about? ”

Zhu Youzhen glanced at Zhu Yousong with a somewhat embarrassed face, and said, "Actually, there is a thing called 'folding color'. ”

Zhu Yousong looked like an idiot and muttered in a low voice: "Refraction? Why do you still have physics knowledge? ”

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but say: "It's 'folding', not refraction!" ”

Zhu Yousong glared at Zhu Youzhen and complained: "Straighten your tongue!" ”

Zhu Youzhen was choked, and he couldn't wait to ask the guards to come over to reward Zhu Yousong for a few big boards.

The Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty is the official dialect of Fengyang, but after the imperial capital moved north, the official dialect of Beijing has sprung up and is also popular among the officials in Kyoto.

However, Zhu Youzhen did not say these two common words, and he spoke Mandarin to Zhu Yousong in later generations.

"Sooner or later, take off your pants and hit thirty boards!"

Zhu Youzhen naturally didn't say this, and under Zhu Yousong's obscenity, he coughed lightly and said: "You also know that even in the future generations, China is an out-and-out agricultural country, let alone the current Ming Dynasty. The current officials are all grain, but there is little grain in the north, and the court can't send it, so they can only use other things to offset it. ”

Zhu Yousong flicked the cigarette ash and asked, "What to use?" ”

Zhu Youzhen said slowly: "Cloth, cotton, yarn." ”

Zhu Yousong said curiously: "Even if you, the boss, can't pay your salary, it's because the food is not enough, and you can use other things to deduct it, so it makes sense, why do they still shout poor one by one?" ”

Zhu Youzhen said softly: "The yarn I am talking about is Daming treasure yarn." ”

Zhu Yousong didn't take a puff of cigarette, he choked and coughed, and it took a long time to recover his strength, and he looked at Zhu Youzhen, who was a little embarrassed, and said, "Ruthless!" You actually sent butt wiping paper to people! No wonder, no wonder ......"

This Daming treasure yarn has long been abolished, this official currency that cannot be called currency, and now it is still used as a salary discount for officials, no wonder the officials are shouting poor one by one!

In this environment, there has been no rebellion, and in Zhu Yousong's eyes, those officials who are not corrupt and only live on dead wages can really be called "loyal to the monarch and patriotic".

In fact, there are many things that Zhu Youzhen did not tell Zhu Yousong, and the Ming officials' salaries could not be distributed on time and in quantity, which was just one of the reasons why the officials shouted poverty.

For the sake of official authority, officials naturally have to pay attention to face, after all, there are only a small number of officials who live on dead salaries.

And among the officials who default to gray income, a considerable part of them do not want to be clean officials, but they can't live as clean officials!

This is by no means alarmist, the plot of the Chinese to save face, that is since ancient times!

What is the ten-year cold window diagram? Is it for the sake of eating bran vegetables? Who doesn't want to live a prosperous life?

According to the current social atmosphere, these officials who want to save face should invite a cook or a cook lady to cook, right? You need to use a sedan chair driver to carry a sedan chair, right? You need a porter to watch the gate, right? It's all money!

Not to mention that these officials who want to save face don't think they have enough money to spend, they just don't want to save face, and they just want to live honestly, if they want to live a well-off life, the dead salary is not enough to spend......

Because at this time of year, in order to have more children and more blessings, who will not marry two or three? And now that there is no family planning, who doesn't have two or three children?

Giving birth to two or three is less, who can guarantee that all children can survive in good health and not die halfway?

The royal family, which combines the power of the world, cannot guarantee that there are few examples of early death of princesses and princes?

Therefore, even if an official has only one child in his family and no servants in the family, there are still parents to support and wives and children to raise.

Now there is no emancipation of women, and the wife has to teach her husband and children at home, take care of her parents, and at most spin cotton, weave and weave cloth, and make clothes in her free time, which will not bring much income to the family!

So the burden of feeding the whole family of five is all on him, an official, but the court is not even enough to pay for it now, what can people do, except for gray income, if you want to survive, you can really only eat chaff and drink thin.

This is not a little exaggerated, the Ming Dynasty county order level is seven products, to him to calculate higher, the monthly salary is said to have eight stones, a month is only 1,400 catties of rice, according to the current rice 2 yuan a catty of conversion, about 2800 yuan or so.

This 2,800 yuan seems to be enough to survive, but everything is afraid of per capita!

An official assumes that he doesn't want to lose face, so he doesn't invite a mother-in-law, a porter, a subordinate, a maid and no concubine......

There is only one child, a wife, plus parents, a family of five, and the average person is only more than 500 yuan a month, which is the monthly salary of the county order in people's mouths.

And the 2,800 yuan is not complete, it was sent to the official in its original form, and after folding such a thing, it would be good if the official could get half of it!

Half of the 2,800 yuan, only 1,400 yuan, the county party secretary, the county magistrate, the county public security director, the county education director, the county finance bureau director and other titles in one of the top county respect, only 1,400 yuan a month! This is the income of the Ming and Qing Dynasty officials and county orders for a month!

There is also a very fatal point, there is no social welfare at this time, that is to say, if you have a headache and brain fever, if you want to see a doctor, you have to deduct more than 500 yuan per capita living expenses.

Let's not talk about publicly-funded medical care, in fact, fifteen years ago in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court didn't even give pensions.

That is, Yang Ding, the head of the household during the Chenghua period, retired, and the emperor specially added grace and gave two stones to Mi every month.

The value of these two stones of rice is only 500 yuan now, which sets a precedent for the minister to retire to rice.

But everyone must see clearly, it is a precedent, not a convention!

And this Yang Ding is the number one leader of the household department of the sixth department, and the number one person of the household department is equivalent to the minister of finance in later generations, such a high position, the pension is only 500 yuan a month!

What kind of treatment other officials can have, everyone can imagine.

Therefore, if you want to be a clean official with no gray income at all, just rely on the salary mentioned above, and think about what your life will look like......

This is by no means alarmist, otherwise Hai Rui, a famous Qing official in history, would not have been able to be seen as news because of his old mother's birthday, and his son bought two catties of meat!

Some people may say that Hai Rui is too extreme to count, so let's take a look at Li Dongyang during the Zhengde period.

Li Dongyang's word is Binzhi, his name is Xiya, he has walked a lifetime of official career, and finally achieved the first assistant of the cabinet, the prince and the prince, which can be described as extremely honorable.

Moreover, his family is thin, his son died early, and after the family is extinct, the burden of supporting the family is very small.

So, in this case, what are the living conditions of Li Gelao, who is "unswerving" and only eats on his salary?

"Strike at home, ask the poet to fill in the household limit, and give a lot of money to the day." In other words, he has no savings at all, and when he retires, he can barely survive at home by relying on the pen money given by others when he asks for poems.

And when he dies? "The old man of the door gave him money, and he was buried." This means that Li Dongyang was already too poor to treat the funeral, and it was all up to his protégés and colleagues in the court to raise money to hold the funeral.

This is the end of a court official who is nicknamed Wenzheng, and lives on a dead salary.

The head of the hall has become this coward, and what the days of other Qing officials are like, can be imagined......

Zhu Youzhen naturally knows these things, and he wants the horses to run, and he wants the horses not to eat grass, which is delusional.

Although Zhu Youzhen wants to reform, how can the current Ming Dynasty have the money to give him and let him improve the welfare of officials?

Zhu Youzhen even suspected that the reason why the Wanli Emperor in the history books was so hated and hacked by the literati could not be that his grandfather was too rich back then.

Emperor Wanli was rich so he spendthrift it himself, and the ministers saw it in their eyes, and their eyes were naturally red. It's like a part-time worker who watches the boss big fish and meat every day, and he eats all day without saying that he has a big meal, and such a rich boss doesn't say that he has increased the treatment of employees, and he is still in arrears of wages!

If people encounter this kind of thing, it would be strange if they didn't say bad things about Emperor Wanli behind their backs......